Ensemble:   No one can deny that these are difficult times   No one can deny that these are difficult times      Molokov:   Ms. Vassey      Florence:   Mr. Molokov      Ensemble:   It's the U.S. vs. U.S.S.R.   Yet we more or less are    No one can deny that these are difficult times   To our credit, putting all that aside   We have swallowed our pride      These are very dangerous and difficult times!      Florence:   It really doesn't matter who comes out on top      Molokov:   Who gets the chop      Ensemble:   No-one's way of life is threatened by a flop   But we're gonna smash their bastards!   Make him want to change his name   Take him to the cleaners and devastate him   Wipe him up, humilate him   We don't want the whole world saying   "They can't even win a game"      Walter:   We have never reckoned on coming second      Molokov:   There's no use in losing   It's the red flag up against stars and stripes   But we're peace loving types.      Ensemble:   No one can deny that these are difficult times      Florence:   It's a sweet, hail-fellow, well-met affair      Walter:   For both eagle and bear      Ensemble:   These are very dangerous and difficult times      Molokov:   For those who say that this is not a friendly clash   Don't be so rash   I assure you comrades, that is balderdash      Ensemble:   What a load of whinging peasants!   Thinking they win, they can't!   What an exhibition of self-delusion   This one's a foregone conclusion   But enough of all this beating   Round the bushes of detente   We intend to collar the Yankee dollar   We will smash them      Trash them.      Molokov:   How good to feel that as this great event begins   It underpins   Our quest for peace--   The bonds of common interest   Of East and West.      All:   As long as our man wins.   As long as our man wins.